“One thing I don’t like… is lying. Don’t lie to me again, Saskia. Got it?”
“I’m sorry.”
“I can make you not love him, Saskia. As a matter of fact, I can make you hate him. Don’t make me do that because if I do that it would involve hurting you most of all.”
A shiver runs through me, and all I do is look to the floor as he walks past.
“You would be the perfect soul to sell. I could get a high price for you. Remember that.” Then he’s gone without another word, and I’m left with a smarting cheek and a loss for words.
Chapter Six
Ryken
“It’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done, and you’ve done some stupid shit,” Quinn says, shaking his head as we walk into the club. It isn’t busy because it’s not night-time. But I know he’ll be here, he always is. Business never ends for us, unless we choose so. That usually requires us being buried with those that left before us.
“Shut up,” I reply. The lights are on, and I see Scott first, standing behind Antonio. Antonio doesn’t run his people like he’s an MC president anymore. He’s turned all business. I haven’t seen him on a motorcycle for a very long time. The money must be such a massive lure for him.
“Mr. Lord,” Scott says, making Antonio look up. Next to him sits Amy and, of course, she’s smiling up at me. Antonio doesn’t say a word but waves his hand for us to sit down. Quinn stands behind me, not taking the seat next to me. Antonio wanted Quinn to serve him. Quinn is deadly, good at his job and dedicated to those he serves. But even Quinn has some morals, and he doesn’t fucking like Antonio at all.
“You come to visit her, have you?”
My back straightens at his words. He laughs his evil fucking laugh, and sits back, his hand touching Amy’s thigh as she stares at me.
“She’s a pretty little thing. How does Livia feel about her?” Amy asks.
Both Amy and Antonio got to know me well when I was here. As I got to know them. She’s as crazy as he is, maybe even more so. Rolling my neck to the side, I try to refrain from climbing over him so I can strangle the life right out of her.
“She is… prettier than some. Anyway…” I say, staring at her. Amy thinks she’s the prettiest thing to walk this planet. Ask her, and she will tell you happily. She even makes you say it when you fuck her. Yes, I went there. Fucked her, too. Many years ago, when I first met her, she was actually the second person I ever fucked. She was trying for my father, but he pushed her to me. She was hot, attractive, intelligent, but mad as a March hare. I was young and didn’t want to say no.
Her heels start tapping up and down, and her lips purse into a thin line. “Do you really want to make me mad, when she’s living under my roof? I already don’t like the bitch, Ryken. Would you rather I hate her and have the consequences of that on you?”
I stand in the same spot ready to reach for her neck. “You better not fucking touch her, you whore.”
Amy laughs, lying back, and her hand touches Antonio’s shoulder. “You aren’t in charge in this room. You should know that.”
Why does he even have her here? She would be so much better suited lying in a hole covered with dirt.
“Are you trying to say I have no say here? This business was built by my family. Yet, a whore thinks she can tell me what to do?” I laugh while she looks to Antonio who shrugs her off him.
“You need to shut your mouth, Amy,” Antonio speaks loudly.
Amy stands, cursing, as she walks past us leaving the room.
Antonio looks up. “I apologize. You know I don’t think the way she does. Though, your power does seem to have lessened in the past few weeks, once people heard the news I now have possession of your girl.”
My teeth grind against each other. “I followed the code. Code that was put in place by my father. A life for a life. But this one’s different. You know that.”
His teeth grind as he looks up to me. “I put her to work, she’s working here.”
I nod my head. He said that’s all she would do. It was part of the payback. But it didn’t start off that way. Livia was his first choice. He didn’t know of Saskia until Michael opened his damn large mouth, then Antonio asked for Saskia instead.
This world we live in is fucked.
Yes, I’m the king.
But a king still has to follow the rules.
And rules aren’t to be broken because then the chain of command is damaged.